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Squirrel Destiny: A Match Made in Heaven (Or, Rather, on the Internet)
All I know is, someone needs to hook up this guy:
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Morning Coffee
How Metafilter beat the New York Times. Tearing down freeways could be the answer to all your urban traffic woes. In 2009 I’ve had the worst allergies of my life, still these pictures of pollen under microscopes are pretty dang…
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IKEA Hacker
Your night editor was MIA yesterday for a very good reason: he inadvertantly got locked into the Emeryville IKEA overnight, and in the end there was nothing to be done but curl up on a DALSELV (or anyway a JAREN…
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Who Needs Philosophy?
Back when I was a little boy, living in a yellow stucco house in San Diego, I would sit in the hot tub at night, under desert-clear stars, listen to the coyotes howl and ask my Dad about those dead…
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A Little Bit About AK Press
For the past couple years I have been an enthusiastic supporter of the Oakland-based AK Press, a small, “anarchist collective” press that publishes about twenty to thirty books a year, most of which deal with radical politics, current affairs, anarchist/leftist…
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America Wants to Gay Marry the Phrase “Gay Marry”
Mark Peters takes a look at the linguistic and cultural meanings behind America’s favorite new idiom: “gay marry.” You know, as in… “‘I going [sic] to do unspeakable things to this sandwich. Like gay-marry it.’ June 23, 2009, Alison Agosti,…
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Morning Coffee
70 golden cages of light in Northern France. We’re not sure what the point is, but it certainly is pretty. In Oslo they are building new crystaline skyscrapers. Meanwhile, in Hiroshima, they are going in the opposite direction. The worst…
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Like a Pack of Alaskan Dogs
“Ed Paulsen was nineteen in 1931. He was a job applicant. San Francisco. ‘I’d get up at five in the morning and head for the waterfront. Outside the Spreckels Sugar Refinery, outside the gates, there would be a thousand men.…
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Morning Coffee
Did you know that in the 1950s and 60s the CIA used prostitutes to test out the possible mind control effects of LSD on the general populace. Operation Midnight Climax has all the details. (via Metafilter.) While we’re on the…
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Country Music in Kenya & Mumbai
“Country music has fans wherever people are departing rural areas. In other words, worldwide. Turns out that the weeping tunes about better days can be understood even without understanding the lyrics. That crying slide guitar is the perfect accompaniment for…